§ Mr. WebbTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his press release of 26 June on the Commonwealth education fund, under which expenditure heading of which Department matching funding for Sports Relief fund-raising appears; what his provisional estimate of expenditure under this heading is; and whether such matched funding represents net additional Government expenditure which would not have occurred in the above of Sports Relief's activities. [70940]
§ John HealeyMatching funds provided by the Government to Sports Relief will be disbursed through the Department for International Development and will form part of DFID's development assistance spending on education. Based on provisional estimates provided by Sports Relief, DFID is expecting to provide up to £4.4 million to support Sports Relief's education projects in Commonwealth developing countries.
The matched funding provided to Sports Relief represents net additional Government expenditure, and is additional to the provision made for DFID in 2002–03 and 2003–04.